Climate change wars are coming and a deranged Trump building his many walls will not stop it.

“I’m very strongly of the opinion that walls are never a solution. You cannot build walls to stop people when they want to go to safety”. Major General Munir Muniruzzaman, chairman of the Global Military Advisory Council On Climate Change (GMACCC).

Our Earth is a miraculous and beautiful place where conditions are perfect for life to thrive. These conditions reflect how our climate system interconnects with everyone and everything. Man made greenhouse gases are rapidly changing the life sustaining conditions for most species (including humans). These conditions have allowed humans to build the civilization which we enjoy today. We are now experiencing rapid and abrupt changes to the climate. People are already migrating due to drought, heat, floods and stronger storms that are disrupting the climate system and putting most people on this planet at grave risk for mass extermination. The planets water and food resources are  in peril from our fossil fuel emissions. People will migrate if they are able, the survival instinct is strong.

The Watchtower reports on the looming humanitarian crisis from climate change.

Brigadier General Stephen Cheney, chief executive of the American Security Project and member of the US Department of State’s foreign policy affairs board, said: “Climate change could lead to a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions.

“We’re already seeing migration of large numbers of people around the world because of food scarcity, water insecurity and extreme weather, and this is set to become the new normal.”

The impacts of rising temperatures, such as droughts, are acting to increase instability on Europe’s doorstep and there were direct links to climate change in the Syrian war, the Arab Spring and the Boko Haram terrorist insurgency in Africa, he said.

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A global scramble for resources is underway and without understanding that reality, the foreign policies of the major powers seem bewildering. But viewed through the lens of resource scarcity, the brutal wars and violent conflicts rocking the world today come into focus.  The world powers are angling to secure control or access to the major resources – namely oil, which powers the global economy. Western involvement in the Middle East has always been about protecting access to oil. But soon, we’ll start seeing resource wars fought not only over oil, but even water.

A Pentagon training video on the projected migration to megacities.

Yesterday, the world witnessed the antics of an incompetent, petty and vindictive madman tell the planet to drop dead. He stated that “job killing regulations” were his reasons to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord. But he also revealed that he was tired of being laughed at by our European allies. Unsurprisingly, he outraged the vast majority of people on the Earth. His decision has finally made global warming a national news event. For those of us that have been screaming from the rafters for decades that the planet is getting dangerously warm to no avail, we now have climate change press coverage that had never before existed.

One institution that has been ringing the alarm over climate change has been the military. Vera Bergengruen of McClatchey reports on the US military warning us on what climate change will mean for our armed services.

At his confirmation hearing, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis called climate change a “driver of instability” that “requires a broader, whole-of-government response.”

For more than a decade, military leaders have said that extreme weather patterns and rising sea levels are aggravating social tensions, destabilizing regions and feeding the rise of extremist groups like al Qaida and the Islamic State.

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As politicians have squabbled over what actually causes climate change, or whether China or India should be doing more, the Pentagon has been trying to map out a long-term strategy to mitigate the risks that they not only see on the horizon, but are already experiencing.

“Climate change is already impacting the military itself, how it operates, and the countries in which we have an interest where it can result in instability, which leads to violence, which leads to conflict and where we end up moving our young men and women overseas,” said retired U.S. Army Brigadier Gen. Gerald Galloway, who is now a University of Maryland engineering professor.

The Independent warns in a piece that “The effects of global warming ‘are becoming so severe they hold tremendous conflict potential’ in some areas and the world should prepare for millions of refugees”

“In our analysis, we are seeing the risk is now becoming all-pervasive from climate change in the sense that it is touching multiple sectors … many of the sectors are being gravely challenged,” he said.

“In some areas of the world, some of the issues we are touching on are becoming so severe they hold tremendous conflict potential."

He pointed to the recent diplomatic row between bitter regional rivals India and Pakistan, which both have large militaries and nuclear weapons, over water supplies.

“There was a possibility of a break down [of diplomacy] … which could have led to the first major water conflict of the world,” he said.

The events of the Arab Spring and the Syrian civil war were also connected to unrest caused by droughts and crop failures.

General Muniruzzaman pointed to projections that sea-level rise could result in the loss of 20 per cent of Bangladesh’s territory as early as 2050, which would force up to 30 million people to look for a new home.

“Imagine, with an international community unable to cope with a few thousand Syrian refugees, what will happen when millions of people are on the move,” he said.

The 45th President of the United States has ignored the warnings from his military, the world’s leaders, climate scientists and members of his own administration and proceeded to deliberately wreak havoc on the world.  The real reason Trump exited the Paris climate change deal was to give the world the finger , ”while reminding his base that he shares its resentments of fancy-pants elites and smarty-pants scientists and tree-hugging squishes who look down on real Americans who drill for oil and dig for coal.” The GOP base will not abandon him and that means the GOP majority will not remove him from office no matter how egregious his actions. Everyone will pay dearly as a result.